The 2019 budget was originally designed to double down on last year’s proposals to slash foreign aid, the Environmental Protection Agency, home heating assistance and other non-defence programmes funded by US congress each year.

Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to ex-president Barack Obama, said: “A lot of presidents’ budgets are ignored. But I would expect this one to be completely irrelevant and totally ignored.

“In fact, congress passed a law last week that basically undid the budget before it was even submitted.”

In a preview of Monday’s release, the White House focused on Mr Trump’s 1.5 trillion dollar (£1.08 trillion) plan for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. He also is asking for a 13 billion dollar (£9.39 billion) increase over two years for opioid prevention, treatment and long-term recovery. A request for 23 billion dollars (£16.6 billion) for border security, including 18 billion dollars (£13 billion) for a wall along the US-Mexico border and money for more detention beds for detained immigrants, is also part of the budget.

Mr Trump would again spare Social Security retirement benefits and Medicare he promised during the 2016 campaign. While his plan would reprise last year’s attempt to scuttle the “Obamacare” health law and slash the Medicaid programme for the elderly, poor and disabled, Mr Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill have signalled there is no interest in tackling thorny health issues during an election year.

The budget also endorses a plan by senators Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy to replace the Obama-era health law with 1.6 trillion dollars (£1.1 trillion) in subsidies to states over the coming decade.